I turned myself into a goose, had a stroke, and was taken care of by a HIVE friend in Japan (???) - VRchat
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0.000 HBDI turned myself into a goose, had a stroke, and was taken care of by a HIVE friend in Japan (???) - VRchat
VRchat is a strange but wonderful place, one I've been meaning to get into even without a VR headset (for now). Recently, @igormuba invited me for a little session of VRchat while he worked on something. I quickly downloaded the game and logged in, I had tons of performance problems at first because I'm using a much less powerful computer now. He took me to a world that resembled a very comfy Muscovite/St. Petersburgish atmosphere. A Russian convenience store, a park, a bunch of people speaking Russian, which I barely know any words... That's when my game crashed. Too many particles, models too complex. VRAM on my 1GB 650Ti went through the roof and I'm pretty sure my measly i3 3220 (which I'm replacing for an i7 3770) needed therapy after that. Second time's the charm though! - as no one says. I logged back in to my homeworld and changed graphical settings and model download limits to low. Not the lowest, but low, I thought I'd be fine. In fact, my homeworld was not doing so badly. I decided to switch Avatars, be less generic, so I turned into a goose through an avatar gallery world thing. It was funny. I don't have a headset, so no hands anyway, a goose only made sense. Everything was fine. @igormuba then invited me to a Japanese styled world, I got there and was pleasantly surprised, everything was running great, so I walked up to him and some Chinese girls in anime avatars, I think there was also a Chinese guy there. I did speak a little but then it happened again - freezes. I'm prett sure it was RAM this time. I kept trying to speak and move my mouse, every 40 seconds or so I'd get a glimpse of life. I could hear voices on repeat, a garbled mess of sounds, Chinese, English and Igor desperately trying to get me in Portuguese. I was essentially having a stroke. My brain got effed up, except my brain was my computer, and the stroke was just me running low on RAM or maxing out my CPU. Luckily, Igor and the Chinese girls there took care of me. Igor was so kind as to take pictures of me, I guess so I could be sure my fragile goose body was intact afterwards.    To be frank, I don't know if this is hilarious or adorable. But I love it. Even if I wasn't really all that involved in what the hell was going on, I want more, this stuff is crazy cool. When I'm done with my upgrades (i7 3770 and +8GB of RAM), I'm sure I'll be able to enjoy things a lot better. Wait for me, @igormuba! You have a lot of mandarin to teach me... In Japan. 